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nominals

nominals is the plural of nominal.

Meaning of nominal

Noun

nominal (plural nominals)

  1. A noun or word group that functions as part of a noun phrase.
    • This sentence contains two nominals.
  2. A part of speech that shares features with nouns and adjectives. (Depending on the language, it may comprise nouns, adjectives, possibly numerals, pronouns, and participles.)
    • A considerable number of derived nominals, especially thematic nouns, also exhibited o-grade roots.2006, Donald Ringe, From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 12
  3. A number (usually natural) used like a name; a numeric code or identifier. (See nominal number on Wikipedia.)
    • Numeric codes of characters used in programming are nominals.
  4. (UK, jargon) A person listed in the Police National Computer database as having been convicted, cautioned or recently arrested.

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Questions about nominals

What is nominals the plural of?
Nominals is the plural of nominal.

Words near nominals in the dictionary

  1. nominalizers
  2. nominalizes
  3. nominalizing
  4. nominally
  5. nominalness
  6. nominals
  7. nominant
  8. nominants
  9. nominata
  10. nominate
  11. nominate contract

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nominals (page history and authors); nominal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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